These American aircraft were used by the Air Transport Auxilliary in Britain and the majority operated with the ATA ferrying their aircrew to collect or deliver aircraft to and from manufacturers, Maintenance Units (MU)s and operational bases.
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Marjorie Spiller would today be described as a complex character. Her life included highs and lows. An actress and pilot, she accomplished much, yet her final two years reveal she suffered cri…
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Should a girl ever be born to live fast, it would have to be Diana Barnato. From her childhood in the 1930s, she remembered the crunch of spinning tyres on the gravel at her father's country home in Surrey as he and his Croesus-rich friends accelerated their open-top, longnosed racing Bentleys up the drive
Mary Guthrie flew Hurricanes on transport missions during the second world war, although she never saw combat she was widely considered...
The term war hero doesn't usually bring to mind images of it-girls or front page glamour shots... But the ladies of the female section of the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) singlehandedly transformed the idea of what it meant to be a war hero. They were the glamour girls of the Second World
The 94-year-old was one of the first female pilots to fly a Spitfire during World War Two.
Whether flying transport planes, preparing torpedoes or cracking German codes at Bletchley Park, British women made a vital contribution during World War Two.
The term war hero doesn't usually bring to mind images of it-girls or front page glamour shots... But the ladies of the female section of the British Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) singlehandedly transformed the idea of what it meant to be a war hero. They were the glamour girls of the Second World
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168 women, among them recruits from the US and Australia, served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II which ended 70 years ago this Saturday with the surrender of Japanese forces.
Air Transport Auxiliary Joining the Royal Air Force was against American law. Anyone who did so risked punishment and lost their citizenship, although a blanket pardon was …
MAUREEN DUNLOP de POPP, 1920-2012 Maureen Dunlop de Popp was one of a pioneering group of women pilots who flew the latest fighter and bomber aircraft with the wartime Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA). She achieved national fame as a cover girl when a Picture Post photographer captured her alighting from a Barracuda aircraft. Maureen Dunlop’s arrival in England from her home in Argentina coincided with a huge increase in aircraft production which led to an urgent need to expand the almost
168 women, among them recruits from the US and Australia, served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II which ended 70 years ago this Saturday with the surrender of Japanese forces.
Joy Lofthouse, 92, from Cirencester, Gloucestershire, was one of only 164 women who were allowed into the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War Two.
168 women, among them recruits from the US and Australia, served in the Air Transport Auxiliary during World War II which ended 70 years ago this Saturday with the surrender of Japanese forces.
The 94-year-old was one of the first female pilots to fly a Spitfire during World War Two.
